Introduction
October 29th, 1977
Hogwarts was abuzz with rumors of visitors that day. Several people had seen the Headmaster escorting nine unknown people through the castle earlier during the day. It was currently dinner time, and James Potter was annoying his friends with tales of his first date with Lily Evans earlier that day during the Hogsmeade visit.
“Prongs,” Sirius sighed, interrupting James, “we are so happy for you, but if we have to hear this one more time.” The huge smile on his face belied his words though, he was so happy that his brother in all but blood finally got to go on a date with the girl of his dreams.
Meanwhile, Lily was huddled together with her best friends Alice and Marlene, talking about the previous day and their respective dates with James, Frank and Sirius.
Halfway through dinner, Dumbledore arrived, walking straight to the head table before turning to address his students. “As many of you have heard, we have some visitors in the castle. They have several things they would like to say, and then I will be escorting them as well as several students, and other visitors who shall be arriving shortly, to a very peculiar room.” As the Headmaster finished his speech the Great Hall doors opened and nine people walked in, and while no one knew who they were, several looked familiar. The person at the head of the group, while obviously the leader, was also the smallest of the visitors, yet her presence seemed to fill the Great Hall in a way that even Dumbledore couldn’t.
The group didn’t walk far into the hall, but the small black haired girl, with striking green eyes, spoke quickly before much whispering could occur. “Hello everyone. We are sorry to have disturbed your dinner, and unfortunately most of you won’t even remember that we were here, but this was the easiest way to get everyone together that we needed. With that can we get James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew, Lily Evans, Marlene McKinnon, Alice Selwyn, Frank Longbottom, Severus Snape, Regulus Black, and Barty Crouch, as wells as Professor’s Dumbledore, McGonagall, Sprout, and Flitwick.”
There was some hesitation amongst the students but eventually the seven Gryffindors stood up followed by the one Hufflepuff, the Ravenclaw and the two Slytherin’s, stood and followed the requested Professor’s out of the hall behind the still unknown visitors. They were met in the Entrance Hall by a large group of people, which consisted of Arthur and Molly Weasley and their three children, Fabian and Gideon Prewitt, Ted and Andromeda Tonks and their daughter, Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy, Xenophilius Lovegood and his fiance Pandora Aetos, Amos and Columba Diggory with their newborn son, Amelia Bones, Kingsley Shacklebolt, Alastor Moody and Augusta Longbottom. Before anyone could ask any questions the female who had spoken earlier, as well as the Headmaster both said at the same time, “This way please.”
“Did you see her eyes,” James whispered to Lily as they followed, “They look just like yours.”
“Arthur, did you see her,” Molly whispered to her husband, “she looks just like your mother.”
“Why in the name of Salazar Slytherin have we been summoned like house elves by a group of unknown people,” Lucius asked his wife and his close friend Severus.
Without waiting to see if they were followed, the unknown visitors who had requested their presence led the way to the seventh floor where a door appeared out of nowhere. Ushering everyone in, there was a large room that seemed to be a combination of the Gryffindor and Slytherin common rooms with the large couches and fireplaces but the underwater quality of the Snake den. There were couches and chairs aplenty for the large group of people, as well as two doors right off the room and a long corridor. As the last person entered the room the doors closed with a soft click and locked with a loud chime like a bell.
The stunned silence of the group seemed to come to an end the moment everyone realized that they were now locked in a room with several unknowns and with some of the peoples enemies. Speaking quickly the leader of the group spoke again, loudly to be heard over the rising voices. “Welcome to the Room of Requirement. I know that you are unsure of why you all are here but there will be time for explanations after introductions are done.”
A bushy haired brunette stepped forward at that and continued, “We have come here from the year 2000.” The room exploded into conversations about how this could be, who these people were as some of them were obviously their offspring as there was no doubt of the relations between the blonde boy and Lucius Malfoy now knowing that these people were from the future, and all Lucius could think was why was his future son hanging out in the company of Weasley’s.
The group from the future let everyone talk for a minute before anyone tried to speak again. Several of the group tried to get everyone’s attention. Finally after five minutes of trying the leader yelled, “ENOUGH!” while swiping her hand through the air and a wave a magic flowed over everyone. Everyone immediately stopped talking and turned all their attention to the time travelers, and she then continued. “We will be introducing ourselves and saying who our parents are as well as our age. I also know that this is a very unbelievable situation so we have a type of veritaserum here that will allow us the autonomy to give this information without being asked. As soon as we do give all this info we will be taking the antidote to prevent anyone from asking any unwanted questions. Now we will start with my lovely friend Flare here will start our introductions.” As she finished she threw a potion vial to the person at the end of their procession.
The blond boy shot a glare at his leader and took a small sip from the vial as he caught it before passing it along. Standing up a little bit straighter he said, “I am Draco Malfoy. I am 20 years old and I am the son of Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy.”
The sandy blonde standing next to him softly spoke, “I am Amice Diggory. I am 20 years old and I am the daughter of Amos and Columba Diggory.” As Amice spoke their names the pair looked down at their new son with huge smiles on their faces, they would have a son and a daughter.
The next to introduce herself did so dreamily, “I am Luna Lovegood. I am 19 and the daughter of Xenophilius and Pandora Lovegood.”
The boy who was holding Luna’s hand then said, “I am Neville Longbottom. I am 20 years old and I am the son of Frank and Alice Longbottom.” Once he said his mother’s name, Alice blushed while giggling with Marlene and Lily.
“I am Ginny Weasley,” the next person said, “I am 19 and the daughter of Arthur and Molly Weasley.”
Molly squealed at that, “We have a daughter Arthur. I told you we would have a daughter.”
Laughing at his mother, the red head standing next to Ginny then said, “I’m Ron Weasley. I’m 20 years old and the son of Arthur and Molly Weasley.” The almost 5 year old Charlie looked up at his parents, and asked, “Another little brother?”
The bushy haired girl then took her turn, “I’m Hermione Granger. I’m 21 and a muggle-born so you won’t know who my parents are.”
The last red head of the group then took his turn with a smirk on his face at the leader of the group, “I’m Fred Weasley. I’m 22 and the more fabulous twin born to Molly and Arthur Weasley on April 1st, 1978.”
“That’s seven Arthur, we have seven children,” Molly said shrilly to her husband.
Shaking her head, the last person to introduce herself and the leader of the group took Fred’s hand to pull him back, and while keeping her hand in his, said “I’m Aurora Potter-Black. I’m 20 years old and I am the daughter of James and Lily Potter.”
At that announcement James Potter jumped up and exclaimed loudly, “Yes! Padfoot, did you hear that, Lily is going to say yes when I ask her to marry me!” While he was celebrating and Lily was smiling at him indulgently, Snape had lost all color and looked as if he was about to puke. He quickly masked his face however and scowled at the idiot Potter, and then turned to his spawn.
Sirius sighed, knowing at that moment that he or his girlfriend Marlene wouldn't make it out of this war alive, for the only reason Aurora would be Potter-Black was if he had named her his heir and blood adopted her, which he wouldn't do without first knowing that he couldn't carry on the line himself. He just shook his head at Wormtail's questioning gaze.
“I knew she looked familiar,” Remus spoke first to James before turning to Aurora, “You look just like your father.”
“Except for my eyes,” Aurora cut him off. “I have my mothers eyes.” She then sighed and scrunched her face and her hair turned the exact same shade of red as Lily’s and the same hazel eyes as her father.
“Ray,” Fred sighed, pulling her into his side. “Change back.”
Aurora nodded quickly and then changed back to her natural black hair and green eyes. While Nymphadora was bouncing around her parents legs, “Look mommy, she can change like I can.”
“Two in a 10 year period when there hasn’t been a metamorphmagus in over a hundred years in the Black line and both are Half-bloods. Oh this is great,” laughed Sirius. “I can’t wait for my mother to hear about this.”
“Oh I’m well aware what your mother thinks about this Siri,” Aurora said. “But any way, the reason that we are here is to first tell you that the war is over. Voldemort is dead.” Aurora refrained from looking at any of the Death Eaters in the room when she said this. “However, the cost was too high. So we have gathered everyone here to readaboutmylifeathogwarts,” she finished mumbling fastly.
“What was that dear, we are to read about what?” her mother asked her softly.
Seeing the uncomfortable look on his friend's face, Ron spoke up, “Ari’s life has unfortunately been very intertwined with Voldemort’s, so she and Hermione collected her memories and compiled them into 7 different books about her years at Hogwarts. We will be reading these books.”
“But what about the future you come from, this will change everything,” Pandora said, looking from her fiance to her future daughter with a scared look on her face.
“It won’t,” Luna replied. “Our future is no longer tied to those in this room. It is part of the spellwork that sent us back that created a time break, as well as part of the function of this room. This room is now outside of time for the duration of the readings. When everyone leaves it will still be October 29th, 1977. Only minutes will have passed. There are bathrooms available for everyone here as well as bedrooms for everyone. We brought a couple house elves with us so that we will have food. And when we are done reading we will go back to our time and live the rest of our lives and you will go back out and change your future without changing our past.”
“There’s a room right over here,” Aurora pointed to the blue door in the room, “It’s for the children, there is a house elf to tend to their needs if necessary, or you may keep them with you. My godson is there also, and will occasionally join us. So if everyone would like to get settled I think we can probably get through 3 chapters before we all head to bed for the night.”
When it seemed like no one was going to move, Aurora gave Fred a shove over to a couch and headed into the nursery. Fred’s movement seemed to snap the rest into action and they all took seats.
Seating arrangement -
Couch - Aurora, Fred, Ron, Hermione (travel cot behind them for Teddy)
Couch - Neville, Luna, Ginny
Loveseat - Draco, Amice
Couch - James, Lily, Remus, Peter
Loveseat - Sirius, Marlene
Loveseat - Frank, Alice
Couch - Severus, Lucius, Narcissa
Loveseat - Ted, Andromeda - with bean bag on floor in front of them for Tonks
Loveseat - Xeno, Pandora
Loveseat - Amos and Columba with Cedric
Couch - Molly, Arthur, Fabian, Gideon - with beans bags for Bill and Charlie and a travel cot behind for Percy
Wingback Chairs - Regulus, Barty Crouch Jr., Dumbledore, McGonagall, Sprout, Flitwick, Amelia, Kingsley, Alastor, Augusta